Thursday 16 April 2026, 7.00 pm
Our Annual General Meeting will be followed by its customary public talk, this year delivered by board member Roderick Stewart.
THE CASSIES covering our Dundee streets are rapidly becoming an endangered species as they are relentlessly replaced by ‘safe’ tarmac, or, more deceitfully, replaced by modern machine-cut imitations. Even their very identity as ‘cassies’ is under threat as the invasive English ‘cobble’ encroaches, entirely incorrectly, into our vocabulary.
Roderick Stewart has been an observer and photographer of cassies and their kin, kerbs and flags, for many decades and this illustrated roam around our streets aims to highlight the extraordinary skills and the sheer scale of labour required to create our gloriously-textured streetscapes. It is also a passionate plea in favour of what we should be preserving. History can never be re-wound.
Roderick has been a ‘petrophile’ and cassie collector for many years; his collection includes tank-polished basalt from Moscow’s Red Square and some extraordinary ‘muckle setts’ from Vienna. These will also be on display.
The talk will take place, as usual, in the Dundee Art Society Roseangle Gallery following Dundee Civic Trust’s characteristically brisk AGM. The AGM will start at 7.00pm (19:00) and the talk will start at 7.30 (19:30). As always, visitors will be very welcome and there will be the opportunity for informal talk over a glass of wine afterwards.